Dull Phrases

Phrases

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
• As boring as a wet weekend in Wigan
• As boring as watching paint dry
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• As dry as a bone
• As dry as a pommy's bath towel
• As dry as dust
• As dull as ditchwater
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As plain as a pikestaff
• As plain as day
• As plain as the nose on your face
• As slow as molasses in January
• As sober as a judge
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Before the ink was dry
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Bleed someone dry
• Bone dry
• Boring old fart
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
• Chivalry is not dead
• Clean and sober
• Cold sober
• Creature of habit
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Deeply boring
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Dim view
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Drink Canada dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Dry humor
• Dry run
• Dry up
• Dumb And Dumber (Jim Carrey movie)
• Dumb bunny
• Dumb cluck
• Dumb dora
• Emigrate to Canada Dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Get stupid
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang him out to dry
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Hidden in plain sight
• High and dry
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Home and dry
• Hung out to dry
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• I'm with stupid
• In plain sight
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• Keep it simple stupid
• Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
• Keep your powder dry
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Milk dry
• More dead than alive
• Never a dull moment
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Numbered with the dead
• Our dumb chums
• Over my dead body
• Painfully slow
• Plain Jane
• Plain sailing
• Plain speaking
• Play dead
• Purl or plain
• Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Slow burn
• Slow but sure
• Slow motion
• Slow on the uptake
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stone cold sober
• Stupid is as stupid does
• Suck someone dry
• Tears Dry On Their Own (Amy Winehouse song)
• Terminally stupid
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The dim distant past
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Wanted, dead or alive
• White bread
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're a long time dead